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Measdar teach
Innse re hOileach
[TCD 1363
(H.4.22), The ‘Seithfín’ Duanaire, 136]
Seithfín
cecinit
[Deachnadh Mór,
Brúilingeacht]
1
Mestar tech
Innsi re
hOilech
tech
nách lingfe
lassair
teid
tar mur Cruacan ar culudh
mur
uassal na n-arradh
do
chinn ar Emain ’sar Oilech
’sar
medhair
Chinn Charadh
gell
re mur
Cormaic do
chuirfedh
gerb
ordraic a
alladh.
2 A
cenn suas
tar gach brugh
bere(i)s [137]
brugh
[...]uas duath nderg tharach
mar [...] barr os
cinn chlogait
in mind clach [...]nn cathnach
cuirt
is inchuir os gach istadh
ca
fidbaid[h] na
facus
nara[...]c
in brugh
retrach [leg.
saethrach?] slaitghel
re
caelach na cathrac.
3 Mur Cruachan
arar
cinn [.......]
is
[n?]uabrugh Cinn
Charadh
’sa[n] tech do bi a nEmain Uladh
Temair na
tri faladh
is
dil ar eighrecht na
n-istadh
in sidh beindghel
ballach
rainic coiler
crann na
coilledh
an
tarb
coimthren
cathrach.
4 Don chuirt
ingantaigh
do-fetar
d’imarcaigh na
n-alladh
loch
’na timchal aga
torracht
fidhbad[h] na loch
lachnach
ni
husgi
diumsach a daingen
acht cíunloch can
cassadh
ara mbí coilchi d’iasg iuchrach
bías
choidhchi cen chadal.
5 Teghdais
meic Ardgail áirc Uladh
cair
carrthain na
cathrac
tech
’nab inanta san
errach
san
istad-sa anfatt
midh
Frangach tre fhin
san istadh
frangcteach nach frith falamh
tech
na sleg ngrenta ’s
na ngheimel
in tech-sa is tech
carad.
6 Damna righ sa treib do thoghus
mu
lin ni leig falamh
tar tech
Rugraidhi a-tú ac
toighecht
mur
Rugruighi rachus
ceim ar airemh os gach istadh
gan
airem ní anfa
ni
mestar aeintech
acht Oilech
ar aibhnes ’na
fharrad[h].
7 Gotha
gerg is go[th na
n-]ealad[h]
’mun
port is ferr
amarc
do-cither sa
corrbrugh chupthach
[...]
codnach na cathrac
loch
sídhe úadh aga fhorrsedh
le
líni luath lachan
in ri ’sa
troigh ara tairsech
do-chí a toigh na tapthar.
8 Coimling a chon ’na coite[...]
scor
moingshlim masglach
nó co
mbi ara cuilt a codladh
do-ci
is cuid da amharc
rith
a cuach n-eithnech san istadh
’sa
bledhedh n-uar
n-assnach
teglach romór imm ó
nEchach
a
comol chúach
mballach.
9 Gres
ar gach
encerd san
istadh
treb
teidbind na
tapthur
tech
Meg Mathgamna
’gur
meltur
séd
cathardha
cathrach
righna os fuirinn oir s[an istad[h]]
a
mbróin croiderg callad[h] (?)
cuirt
ledhMeg Uidhir
ar nUisnech
leitheid Uisnigh d’amarc.
10 As din ar
fhiabrus a
feithim
fiadhach agá falac
daim (?)
mar budh
edh arna n-egor
coin agus gres gadur
eillte sa brudh corrban chupthach
ar ucht ndhonnclár ndarach
a lan
co horrsain san
istadh
’s
ar comlaib na cathrach.
11
D’imdenam each 7 eltan
sbrec
n-ilgresach n-andam
tech
’na conchlonn ma
dho cuiredh.
med
comthom na cathrach
tech
’na ta aigh cach[a] fhilead[h]
a-ta
re taib tallan
tech
can enchlethram in t-istadh [138]
ar céadlennán cathrach.
12 Gell
[d]ar
ndheóin
don tigh ar
tossach
don tigh fá dheóigh
damthair
in
seomra
donnclárach daingen
companach na cathrach
bruighen ghel fhínnderg hí Eachach
tech
is fírferr
ellamh
co
faca an brugh béinnsech bleidhech
in céadtech do charus.
13 Do-gheib
sinn samuilt don istadh
fan
bind labuirt
lachan
dar let is cloch
ar na cengal
in
tech os loch lachnach
adhbur rígh
Oirghiall san istadh
cís
na nghoiriath glacas
tech
í Cholla na cuach n-aistrech
in smual
corcra cathrach.
14 Fuair dar let a chuid don cherudh
tech
ar nách cuir
cagadh
aigi
nach fallsa do fighedh
aigi
badhba balach
(?)
Grés on
tearc caelach na
cailledh
’na
saetrach sreth
masal
a dil
cead ’sa
horrthain
d’innech
’sa
gres
ordhairc
andma.
15 ’Na
trebradh dhluith
mín co mullach
gur dúin clí na
cathrach
suil
do tuighedh tech í
Eachach
bruighen brec ’na mbrannub
gai
gréine ara taib ni ticfadh
re
gaib gréine
ghabus
bés
in
fhirthopair ’conn
istadh
grés
sidhamail
slatach.
16 Lór
d’ínnfhúar
co táir in tespach
ráith
midhfhuar na
massal
le
tech mic Nualaithi
is nemolc
fúarthaisi dá
faghadh
cia
danb egail isan istadh
ferthain gemad
frassach
din ó
thús
dílinn co
deiredh
sá[n]
mur fhínderg
asnach.
17 Dil
air luach
in lamh ler
tuighedh
sidh
na clar mbhúan mbhallach
ní
fes sa[n] teghdhais nach turudh
ferrthain agá
falcadh
tech
air nach gell
caeimthech
cailled[h]
aeintech is ferr
fasscudh
bruighin fithe na colg critrech
scolb
trithi agá
thachtadh.
18 Dá ni nach
egail don istadh
is
mín grenadh
gabhal
gaeth
fuar ina tuili ac toighecht
nó buinne luath lasrach
múr
finn nach
fostann a
dethach
in mid
clochdhonn
cathrach
istadh ard
air nach teid
temhel
a dhé
ni hann
anus.
19 Ni sáer nách
rug gell ar
grinnes
do
delb in bruidh
ballach
frith aenta
Ghobain fan
gerradh
craeba in clogais
cathrach
no is é
sin in saer ler snoighedh
gach
craeb sa[n] tigh
thaprach.
a
cinn ina cheili ceilter
an beinne grinn gabhal.
20 Ní shuathfad
líne lamh ndaingen
sa[n]
rath fhithe assnach
nach
scuch da n-áit arna
n-h[...]
co
tair in brugh ballach
in a ngres far
cosmail coimes
a
nglotain a
gabhal
sa
port chenncorr
arna chengal
do
roth dergdhonn darach.
21 Tech mic
Airdghail dún nach
druidter
arrsaigh clú na cathrac
ca
beg a hinntshathadh
d’aites
inn ingnáthach
annamh [139]
saer
co horsanaib ’gá
hegar
do
donnasnuib
darach
do
thuill beannacht 7 beredh
ar
n-egur na
n-asnadh.
22 Is
cert an
compás ler
cumadh
tech
na ndhonnclár ndarach
in rath fallan os
gach istadh
mur branan ós branndub
do
sin tar cimsaib na coilledh
can
fidhbaid[h] da
falach
tech
fan moch
airfitedh
ealtan
roth
coimlethan cathrach
Ma ta
aintegh is é in
t-istadh
’na[ch] leir gainedh gabhal. Nach leir gainnedh gabhal